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Jan Eric Visser (b. 1962) is a Rotterdam-based sculptor who has worked from an ecological perspective since 1987. He does not use primary raw materials and investigates how art can emerge from repurposed resources. His indoor and outdoor sculptures incorporate innovative recycled materials, with form, matter and space interacting directly.
Visser has exhibited internationally. Selected exhibitions include Techniek: zegen of zorg? at Art Gallery LUMC (2023), Through Bone and Marrow at Brutus (2023), Beelden 2024 at Landgoed Anningahof, Green Paper at Art on Paper, Amsterdam (2024), and A World of Water, Norwich (2025). His work is expected to feature at Lustwarande, Tilburg, in 2026. It is held in collections including the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the Verbeke Foundation (B).
His publications include Jan Eric Visser; Veritas (2017), Piet Augustijn, VuilNieuwsWas (2007), and Wim van der Beek, Monograph (1995). Visser explores how sculpture can exist within sustainable limits and how material, space and meaning interrelate directly.
Visser has exhibited internationally. Selected exhibitions include Techniek: zegen of zorg? at Art Gallery LUMC (2023), Through Bone and Marrow at Brutus (2023), Beelden 2024 at Landgoed Anningahof, Green Paper at Art on Paper, Amsterdam (2024), and A World of Water, Norwich (2025). His work is expected to feature at Lustwarande, Tilburg, in 2026. It is held in collections including the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the Verbeke Foundation (B).
His publications include Jan Eric Visser; Veritas (2017), Piet Augustijn, VuilNieuwsWas (2007), and Wim van der Beek, Monograph (1995). Visser explores how sculpture can exist within sustainable limits and how material, space and meaning interrelate directly.
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Plastikos. Solo @ VierVaart Project Space.
Temporary inland studio Mondriaan Fund 2021.
About
Groen is het nieuwe zwart
Groen is het nieuwe zwart: hoe de beeldende-kunstsector worstelt met de klimaattransitie
De Nederlandse kunstenaar Jan Eric Visser (1962) en zijn vrouw wonen en werken in een huis waar alles wordt gerecycled. De boodschappen komen binnen via de voordeur. In de keuken worden die verwerkt tot eten. Na afloop gaan alle verpakkingen naar Vissers atelier op de begane grond. Als kunstwerk gaan ze vervolgens weer via de voordeur naar buiten. Als jongetje, zo vertelt Visser, voelde hij al het alarmerende karakter van het rapport van de Club van Rome Grenzen aan de Groei (1972). „Ik had toen al het idee dat die uitputtingsslag en de vervuiling die wij als mens de aarde toebrachten, heel serieus was. Ik wilde mijn huisvuil niet in die stroom mee laten gaan. Dus sluit ik het op in mijn beelden. Mijn beelden zijn in feite vuilniszakken die zich gedragen als kunst.” Vissers werk wordt in binnen- en buitenland tentoongesteld. Bij alles kijken hij en zijn vrouw hoe ze zo CO2-neutraal mogelijk kunnen werken.
Lucette ter Borg
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“Every new shape yields a new outlook on life and a survival strategy in which everything is valued, and nothing goes to waste”. (Jan Eric Visser, BK-informatie 30 April 2021)
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Jan Eric Visser
“Activism leads to hopefulness in Visser’s work. There is almost nothing more touching. In the middle of a dumping ground, we build a nest. In the eye of the storm, we make music. That is the great power of his work. (Catrien Schreuder, Head of Exhibitions and Collections of Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 9 June 2021)
Catrien Schreuder
Jan Eric Visser
“The work of Jan Eric Visser is a circular ideal captured in an altogether characteristic aesthetics. His sculpture is a monument to 21st century creativity”. (Edo Dijksterhuis, art crtitc, 6 February 2020)
Edo Dijksterhuis
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Sculptor Jan Eric Visser (1962) studied at the Art Academy in Kampen and Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam. His work has been presented internationally by Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, L'Étrangère Gallery London (GB), CODA Museum Apeldoorn, Verbeke Foundation Kemzeke (B), RAM Gallery Rotterdam, Art Affairs Amsterdam, Museum Artipelag Stockholm (SE), Museo de Casa Brasileira São Paulo (BR) and Museum 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo (JP). In 2021 he was awarded a Stipendium for Established Artists by Mondriaan Fund.
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Jan Eric Visser (1962, Leeuwarden, NL)
Lives and works in Rotterdam
Education
1982-1987 Art Academy, Kampen (NL)
2000-2001 Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
Solo exhibitions
2021 VierVaart Projectspace, Groede. Solo show following residency endorsed by
Mondriaan Fund. Opening: Catrien Schreuder, Head of Exhibitions and Collection
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2020 The garbage bag as muse. Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Curator: Colin Huizing opening: Edo Dijksterhuis
2018 TrashArt. GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (UK)
2013 Form Follows Garbage. Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam
2009 Aquadyne Sculpture et al. RAM Gallery, Rotterdam. opening: Anne Berk
2008 Transformatie II, Art Society Bergen
2008 Beyond Language. Exhibition on the occasion of 80th birthday Jan Verhoeven,
collector of abstract modern art, Woudrichem.
2007 WasteNewsWax; Overview 1987-2007. Opening: Wim van der Beek
Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem
Group exhibitions
2026 Lustwarande (expected) Tilburg (NL)
2025 A World of Water. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (UK) Curator: John
Kenneth Paranada
2025 Sammelsurium. Bradwolff & Partners, Amsterdam
2024 Beelden 2024. Landgoed Anningahof
2024 Green Paper. Art on Paper Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
2023 Techniek: zegen of zorg? Art Gallery LUMC. Curator: Sandrine van Noort
2023 Petromelancholia. Brutus Rotterdam. Curator: Alexander Klose
2023 Through Bone and Marrow. Brutus, Rotterdam. Curator: Maarten Spruyt
2023 Sustaining Small Acts. TENT Rotterdam
2023 The Art of Waste, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (GB)
2023 Sculpture Park. Art Rotterdam. Bradwolff & Partners
2022 Big Art @ Hembrug Zaanstad. Curator: Anne van de Zwaag
2022 Beelden 2022. Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle
2022 A waking dream. HS Projects London in cooperation with L’étrangère Gallery. With Tatiana Wolska (PL/B) Endorsed by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
London
2022 L’étrangère @ Art Rotterdam. Duo with Tatiana Wolska (PL/B)
2021 Recht op Verzet/Right of Opposition. Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem. Group show
with: Marc Bijl, Jeroen Jongeleen, Robin Kolleman a.o.
2020 Big Art. RAM gallery @ Hembrug Zaanstad. Curator: Anne van de Zwaag
2020 Art Brussels Online Platform with L’étrangère Gallery, London.(UK)
2020 Art R’dam with L’étrangère Gallery, London.(UK). Duo with Yelena Popova
2019 Residue. VierVaart Project Space, Groede
2019 CODA Paper Art. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
2019 What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? L’étrangère Gallery, London (UK)
2018 Big Art. Art Affairs Gallery @ De Bijlmerbajes, Amsterdam
2017 Lost in Garbage. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (B)
2017 Big Art. RAM gallery @ De Zonnewyser, Amsterdam
2017 Beelden 2017, Aaltje Snijdershal, Anningahof, Zwolle
2017 Ruins of Desire @ Sculpture garden PAK, Gistel (B)
2017 Art per Gram @ Verbeke Foundation Gallery, Kemzeke (B)
2017 Up Memory Lane, 30 years RAM, booth 51 Art Rotterdam. Curator: Berry Koedam
2016 What Remains, CODA Apeldoorn. Curator: Wim van der Beek
2016 Up Memory Lane (part 2), RAM Gallery, Rotterdam
2016 Beelden 2016, Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle
2016 Untitled 2015, IP 2 @ Verbeke Foundation. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
2016 Pushing Boundaries, Expanding Frontiers, ramfoundation @ Belasting &
Douane Museum Rotterdam
2016 What is Waste?, Art Affairs Amsterdam, curator: Jan Eric Visser
2015 Ruins of Desire @ Verbeke Foundation. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (B)
2015 And the livin’ is easy. Summershow @ ramfoundation Rotterdam
2015 Worlds of Nature. ramfoundation Rotterdam, curator: Berry Koedam
2015 Earth Matters; when natural and creative forces meet. Museum Artipelag,
Stockholm (SE) . Curators: Li Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano
2014 What a Waste, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem
2013 Eye of the Beholder, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam
2013 Surprise, Reprise. Ramfoundation Rotterdam
2013 My Waste is your Waste. Museum of the Image (MOTI), Breda Curator: Joanna van der Zanden
2012 My Waste is your Waste. Museo de Casa Brasileira, Sao Paulo, Brasil, Curator: Joanna van der Zanden
2012 Schone Kunst. Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
Outdoor commissions
2014 Untitled 2013-2014, Outdoor sculpture commissioned by Rabobank.
2011 Untitled 2011 (Roteb Eco Monument), outdoor sculpture commissioned by the City of Rotterdam. Unveiling with Anne Berk (art critic) and Geert Verbeke (Verbeke Foundation Belgium)
1986 Outdoor Sculpture Library Elblag, Poland
Books
2017 Jan Eric Visser; Veritas. Verbeke Foundation (B)
2007 Piet Augustijn. VuilNieuwsWas. Monograph. Gorcums Museum
1995 Wim van der Beek, Monograph, Catalogue, Wegener NV
Interviews (selection)
2020 Trouw, interview by Noor Hellmann, 4 January
2018 BBC Look East, TV newsitem, by Ian Barmer 9 March
2018 Form Follows Garbage, documentary by James Murray-White
2012 VPRO De Avonden. My Waste is Your Waste. Radio interview, 13 November
2011 BBC Look North , Carla Fowler, Form Follows Garbage, , TV newsitem
2009 AVRO' s Kunstportal. Duurzaam Design van Jan Eric Visser. Interview 15 Dec
2009 VARA Vroege Vogels. Plantaardige kunst. Radio interview, 14 June
1997 AVRO’s Kunstblik, Tv program.
Reviews/publications
2025 The Guardian: Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas.
Joanna Moorhead, 13 March
2025 Art Lovers. Gyöngyvér Horváth & Isabelle Onians (ed). Archaeopress:
Bicester, pp 101-2
2024 Big Art: Big Book. Edo Dijksterhuis. Big Publishers Utrecht, pp 41 & 100
2023 Verduurzaming: waarom 10 duizend sokkels? Column Edo Dijksterhuis.
Museumtijdschrift 7, p. 57
2023 The Art and Heritage of Waste, Dr. Veronica Sekules. ClimateCultures: October. p 20/22
2023 Groen is het nieuwe zwart, Lucette ter Borg. NRC, 2 February pp C6 - C10
2021 De vinger op de zere plek, Nico Out. PZC 24 July 2021
2021 Mix & Stir; New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from Global Perspectives, Kitty Zijlmans & Helen Westgeest (eds). Valiz: Amsterdam pp 299 – 301
2021 Jan Eric Visser, Plastikos. Column in BK info #3, pp 12-13.
2021 Manuela Klerkx en Oscar van Gelderen, Ik ontdekte dat kunst niet onbetaalbaar is. Het Parool, 26 April , p 14.
2020 Tracy Metz, Vier fabriekshallen vol met kunst die allemaal XL is NRC. 2 October, p. C21.
2020 Ellen Leijser, Aaibaar afval. FD Persoonlijk Magazine. 18 January. pp 44 - 47
2019 Tom Jeffreys, What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Catalogue essay
2018 Edo Dijksterhuis, De Bajes als Ideale Galerie. Het Parool. 11 October
2018 Jan Verhoeven, How Abstract Art Changed Society and Helped Innovate
Innovation. Pp. 182-185
2018 Sandra Smets, Jan Eric Visser; Zero Waste. In “Onderzoek & Ontwikkeling; bijzondere projecten, residencies, publicaties en onderzoek door Rotterdamse
beeldend kunstenaars”. CBK Rotterdam, p. 27 and p.31
2018 Dr. Veronica Sekules, TrashArt Jan Eric Visser. Catalogue designed by Pearce Marchbank, pp 1- 4
2018 Emily Martin, Nothing is Wasted, Resurgence & Ecologist # 307. March/April
2018 Frederic De Meyer, Form Follows Garbage, theartcouch.be, 14 January
2018 NN, Vorm Volgt Vuil, De KunstKrant Jan/Febr, p 24
2017 Judith van Beukering, Jan Eric Visser, Beelden Magazine 4#2017, p 37
2017 Berry Koedam, Up Memory Lane; 30 years RAM, RAM editions, p.162-163
2016 Piet Augustijn, Jan Eric Visser; luchtzuiverend beton met (glas)afval, Fjoezz 3, pp.44-45
2016 Beatrijs Schweitzer, Wat overblijft in Apeldoorn, Beelden Magazine # 75 ,pp 16-17
2016 Harald Schole, Vuil vol van Leven, kM 98, p.21
2016 N.N, Translucent, luchtzuiverend beton, Innovatieve Materialen, No.3, pp 16-18
2016 Jan Bom, Jan Eric Visser exposeert luchtzuiverend beton, P+ voorjaar 2016, p. 6/7
2016 Anne Berk, Afvalligen, fd persoonlijk, 9 January, pag.14
2015 Etienne Boileau, Cross-overs in de Kunst, Beelden Magazine 3#2015, p. 10
2015 Annica Kvini, Art d’Echo. Tidninger Vi, nr 3, p.85
2014 Piet Augustijn. Form Follows Garbage. Beelden Magazine 4 # 2014, p. 41
2014 Jan Bom. Kunstenaar brengt afval naar Rabobank. P+, E-zine, 29 May
2013 Blouin Artinfo Form Follows Garbage.
2013 Piet Augustijn, Kunst van de Dag, galeries.nl. 23 December.
2013 Rebecca van de Kar, Vuilniszak is mijn Muze, Dagblad Trouw, 15 May
2011 Anne Berk, Steen der Wijzen, Beelden 4#2011, December 2011
2011 Jetty Keuning, Oliver Heidrich, Erik Eikelboom, Schone Kunst, KM58 , December 2011 Robert Sutcliffe, Ultimate Recycling, Yorkshire Post, 14 April
2011 Shira Shovel, Form Follows Garbage, DMH Magazine, 10 February
2011 Karen Chernick, Jan Eric Visser Experiments with Post Fossil Fuel Design, Green
Prophet
2010 Suzanne Labarre, How retro can high design get? Fast Company June 14
2010 Li Edelkoort, POST FOSSIL, excavating 21st century creation. Catalogue pp 10-11
2009 Anne Berk. Het Motto: Form Follows Garbage. Het Financieele Dagblad, 20 June
2008 Jan Bom. De Kosmos van een Vuilniszak. PeoplePlanetProfit, year 6.*6-July/August
2008 Menna Kruiswijk (ed.).Tussen Ratio en Intuïtie., Catalogue. pp.205-206
2007 Wim van der Beek, Reviews; Jan Eric Visser. Kunstbeeld, February
2004 Paola van de Velde, Beelden herbergen huisvuil. De Telegraaf, 28 June
2004 Gerda van Ham, Ode aan het Huisvuil. KM 50, June
2004 Arne Westerhof (ed), Geest van Papier, catalogue pp 98-99
1999 N.N, Jan Eric Visser verheft hergebruik tot kunst, Leeuwarder Courant, 30 January
1999 S.van Ek, Verlakkend effect van vet, Friesch Dagblad, February
1998 Wim van der Beek, Mutatis Mutandis, catalogue, pp 13-14
1998 Sandra Smallenburg, Een Krater in de Waspoederberg, NRC Handelsblad, 15 June
1998 Wim van der Beek, Opmerkelijke veranderingen in actuele Beeldhouwkunst,
Kunstbeeld
1996 Poet Kees Rood, A Way of Life
1995 Johan Pas Nature Morte? Kunst, Natuur & Biotoop. St Leefmilieu, Ludion Uitgeverij Antwerpen
1993 Lieven Defour, De Standaard, June
1993 Bert Bauwelinck, Gazet van Antwerpen, June
Grants/Nominations
2021 Stipendium for Established Artists Mondriaan Fund
2021 AIR VierVaart, Groede endorsed by Mondriaan Fund.
2018 Travel Grant CBK (Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam)
2017 Grant Stichting Jaap Hartenfonds, monograph Jan Eric Visser: Veritas
2017 Grant Stichting Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds, Veritas Project Venice.(IT)
2015 Nomination Van Lanschot Kunstprijs 2015
2014 R&D Grant. CBK Rotterdam (Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam)
2012 Nomination Doen Materiaal Award 2012
2010 Project grant from Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam
2009 Nomination Doen Materiaal Award 2009
1994 Environment award for artwork commissioned by city of Sliedrecht
1994 Grant from Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam
Collections
Aegon Art Collection, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Hogeschool Rotterdam, City of Aalst (B), City of Gorinchem, City of Rotterdam, Technical University Eindhoven, St. Yellow Fellow, Verbeke Foundation (B), distinguished private collections (B/NL/UK)
Lives and works in Rotterdam
Education
1982-1987 Art Academy, Kampen (NL)
2000-2001 Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
Solo exhibitions
2021 VierVaart Projectspace, Groede. Solo show following residency endorsed by
Mondriaan Fund. Opening: Catrien Schreuder, Head of Exhibitions and Collection
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2020 The garbage bag as muse. Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Curator: Colin Huizing opening: Edo Dijksterhuis
2018 TrashArt. GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (UK)
2013 Form Follows Garbage. Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam
2009 Aquadyne Sculpture et al. RAM Gallery, Rotterdam. opening: Anne Berk
2008 Transformatie II, Art Society Bergen
2008 Beyond Language. Exhibition on the occasion of 80th birthday Jan Verhoeven,
collector of abstract modern art, Woudrichem.
2007 WasteNewsWax; Overview 1987-2007. Opening: Wim van der Beek
Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem
Group exhibitions
2026 Lustwarande (expected) Tilburg (NL)
2025 A World of Water. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (UK) Curator: John
Kenneth Paranada
2025 Sammelsurium. Bradwolff & Partners, Amsterdam
2024 Beelden 2024. Landgoed Anningahof
2024 Green Paper. Art on Paper Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
2023 Techniek: zegen of zorg? Art Gallery LUMC. Curator: Sandrine van Noort
2023 Petromelancholia. Brutus Rotterdam. Curator: Alexander Klose
2023 Through Bone and Marrow. Brutus, Rotterdam. Curator: Maarten Spruyt
2023 Sustaining Small Acts. TENT Rotterdam
2023 The Art of Waste, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (GB)
2023 Sculpture Park. Art Rotterdam. Bradwolff & Partners
2022 Big Art @ Hembrug Zaanstad. Curator: Anne van de Zwaag
2022 Beelden 2022. Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle
2022 A waking dream. HS Projects London in cooperation with L’étrangère Gallery. With Tatiana Wolska (PL/B) Endorsed by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
London
2022 L’étrangère @ Art Rotterdam. Duo with Tatiana Wolska (PL/B)
2021 Recht op Verzet/Right of Opposition. Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem. Group show
with: Marc Bijl, Jeroen Jongeleen, Robin Kolleman a.o.
2020 Big Art. RAM gallery @ Hembrug Zaanstad. Curator: Anne van de Zwaag
2020 Art Brussels Online Platform with L’étrangère Gallery, London.(UK)
2020 Art R’dam with L’étrangère Gallery, London.(UK). Duo with Yelena Popova
2019 Residue. VierVaart Project Space, Groede
2019 CODA Paper Art. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
2019 What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? L’étrangère Gallery, London (UK)
2018 Big Art. Art Affairs Gallery @ De Bijlmerbajes, Amsterdam
2017 Lost in Garbage. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (B)
2017 Big Art. RAM gallery @ De Zonnewyser, Amsterdam
2017 Beelden 2017, Aaltje Snijdershal, Anningahof, Zwolle
2017 Ruins of Desire @ Sculpture garden PAK, Gistel (B)
2017 Art per Gram @ Verbeke Foundation Gallery, Kemzeke (B)
2017 Up Memory Lane, 30 years RAM, booth 51 Art Rotterdam. Curator: Berry Koedam
2016 What Remains, CODA Apeldoorn. Curator: Wim van der Beek
2016 Up Memory Lane (part 2), RAM Gallery, Rotterdam
2016 Beelden 2016, Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle
2016 Untitled 2015, IP 2 @ Verbeke Foundation. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
2016 Pushing Boundaries, Expanding Frontiers, ramfoundation @ Belasting &
Douane Museum Rotterdam
2016 What is Waste?, Art Affairs Amsterdam, curator: Jan Eric Visser
2015 Ruins of Desire @ Verbeke Foundation. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (B)
2015 And the livin’ is easy. Summershow @ ramfoundation Rotterdam
2015 Worlds of Nature. ramfoundation Rotterdam, curator: Berry Koedam
2015 Earth Matters; when natural and creative forces meet. Museum Artipelag,
Stockholm (SE) . Curators: Li Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano
2014 What a Waste, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem
2013 Eye of the Beholder, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam
2013 Surprise, Reprise. Ramfoundation Rotterdam
2013 My Waste is your Waste. Museum of the Image (MOTI), Breda Curator: Joanna van der Zanden
2012 My Waste is your Waste. Museo de Casa Brasileira, Sao Paulo, Brasil, Curator: Joanna van der Zanden
2012 Schone Kunst. Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
Outdoor commissions
2014 Untitled 2013-2014, Outdoor sculpture commissioned by Rabobank.
2011 Untitled 2011 (Roteb Eco Monument), outdoor sculpture commissioned by the City of Rotterdam. Unveiling with Anne Berk (art critic) and Geert Verbeke (Verbeke Foundation Belgium)
1986 Outdoor Sculpture Library Elblag, Poland
Books
2017 Jan Eric Visser; Veritas. Verbeke Foundation (B)
2007 Piet Augustijn. VuilNieuwsWas. Monograph. Gorcums Museum
1995 Wim van der Beek, Monograph, Catalogue, Wegener NV
Interviews (selection)
2020 Trouw, interview by Noor Hellmann, 4 January
2018 BBC Look East, TV newsitem, by Ian Barmer 9 March
2018 Form Follows Garbage, documentary by James Murray-White
2012 VPRO De Avonden. My Waste is Your Waste. Radio interview, 13 November
2011 BBC Look North , Carla Fowler, Form Follows Garbage, , TV newsitem
2009 AVRO' s Kunstportal. Duurzaam Design van Jan Eric Visser. Interview 15 Dec
2009 VARA Vroege Vogels. Plantaardige kunst. Radio interview, 14 June
1997 AVRO’s Kunstblik, Tv program.
Reviews/publications
2025 The Guardian: Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas.
Joanna Moorhead, 13 March
2025 Art Lovers. Gyöngyvér Horváth & Isabelle Onians (ed). Archaeopress:
Bicester, pp 101-2
2024 Big Art: Big Book. Edo Dijksterhuis. Big Publishers Utrecht, pp 41 & 100
2023 Verduurzaming: waarom 10 duizend sokkels? Column Edo Dijksterhuis.
Museumtijdschrift 7, p. 57
2023 The Art and Heritage of Waste, Dr. Veronica Sekules. ClimateCultures: October. p 20/22
2023 Groen is het nieuwe zwart, Lucette ter Borg. NRC, 2 February pp C6 - C10
2021 De vinger op de zere plek, Nico Out. PZC 24 July 2021
2021 Mix & Stir; New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from Global Perspectives, Kitty Zijlmans & Helen Westgeest (eds). Valiz: Amsterdam pp 299 – 301
2021 Jan Eric Visser, Plastikos. Column in BK info #3, pp 12-13.
2021 Manuela Klerkx en Oscar van Gelderen, Ik ontdekte dat kunst niet onbetaalbaar is. Het Parool, 26 April , p 14.
2020 Tracy Metz, Vier fabriekshallen vol met kunst die allemaal XL is NRC. 2 October, p. C21.
2020 Ellen Leijser, Aaibaar afval. FD Persoonlijk Magazine. 18 January. pp 44 - 47
2019 Tom Jeffreys, What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Catalogue essay
2018 Edo Dijksterhuis, De Bajes als Ideale Galerie. Het Parool. 11 October
2018 Jan Verhoeven, How Abstract Art Changed Society and Helped Innovate
Innovation. Pp. 182-185
2018 Sandra Smets, Jan Eric Visser; Zero Waste. In “Onderzoek & Ontwikkeling; bijzondere projecten, residencies, publicaties en onderzoek door Rotterdamse
beeldend kunstenaars”. CBK Rotterdam, p. 27 and p.31
2018 Dr. Veronica Sekules, TrashArt Jan Eric Visser. Catalogue designed by Pearce Marchbank, pp 1- 4
2018 Emily Martin, Nothing is Wasted, Resurgence & Ecologist # 307. March/April
2018 Frederic De Meyer, Form Follows Garbage, theartcouch.be, 14 January
2018 NN, Vorm Volgt Vuil, De KunstKrant Jan/Febr, p 24
2017 Judith van Beukering, Jan Eric Visser, Beelden Magazine 4#2017, p 37
2017 Berry Koedam, Up Memory Lane; 30 years RAM, RAM editions, p.162-163
2016 Piet Augustijn, Jan Eric Visser; luchtzuiverend beton met (glas)afval, Fjoezz 3, pp.44-45
2016 Beatrijs Schweitzer, Wat overblijft in Apeldoorn, Beelden Magazine # 75 ,pp 16-17
2016 Harald Schole, Vuil vol van Leven, kM 98, p.21
2016 N.N, Translucent, luchtzuiverend beton, Innovatieve Materialen, No.3, pp 16-18
2016 Jan Bom, Jan Eric Visser exposeert luchtzuiverend beton, P+ voorjaar 2016, p. 6/7
2016 Anne Berk, Afvalligen, fd persoonlijk, 9 January, pag.14
2015 Etienne Boileau, Cross-overs in de Kunst, Beelden Magazine 3#2015, p. 10
2015 Annica Kvini, Art d’Echo. Tidninger Vi, nr 3, p.85
2014 Piet Augustijn. Form Follows Garbage. Beelden Magazine 4 # 2014, p. 41
2014 Jan Bom. Kunstenaar brengt afval naar Rabobank. P+, E-zine, 29 May
2013 Blouin Artinfo Form Follows Garbage.
2013 Piet Augustijn, Kunst van de Dag, galeries.nl. 23 December.
2013 Rebecca van de Kar, Vuilniszak is mijn Muze, Dagblad Trouw, 15 May
2011 Anne Berk, Steen der Wijzen, Beelden 4#2011, December 2011
2011 Jetty Keuning, Oliver Heidrich, Erik Eikelboom, Schone Kunst, KM58 , December 2011 Robert Sutcliffe, Ultimate Recycling, Yorkshire Post, 14 April
2011 Shira Shovel, Form Follows Garbage, DMH Magazine, 10 February
2011 Karen Chernick, Jan Eric Visser Experiments with Post Fossil Fuel Design, Green
Prophet
2010 Suzanne Labarre, How retro can high design get? Fast Company June 14
2010 Li Edelkoort, POST FOSSIL, excavating 21st century creation. Catalogue pp 10-11
2009 Anne Berk. Het Motto: Form Follows Garbage. Het Financieele Dagblad, 20 June
2008 Jan Bom. De Kosmos van een Vuilniszak. PeoplePlanetProfit, year 6.*6-July/August
2008 Menna Kruiswijk (ed.).Tussen Ratio en Intuïtie., Catalogue. pp.205-206
2007 Wim van der Beek, Reviews; Jan Eric Visser. Kunstbeeld, February
2004 Paola van de Velde, Beelden herbergen huisvuil. De Telegraaf, 28 June
2004 Gerda van Ham, Ode aan het Huisvuil. KM 50, June
2004 Arne Westerhof (ed), Geest van Papier, catalogue pp 98-99
1999 N.N, Jan Eric Visser verheft hergebruik tot kunst, Leeuwarder Courant, 30 January
1999 S.van Ek, Verlakkend effect van vet, Friesch Dagblad, February
1998 Wim van der Beek, Mutatis Mutandis, catalogue, pp 13-14
1998 Sandra Smallenburg, Een Krater in de Waspoederberg, NRC Handelsblad, 15 June
1998 Wim van der Beek, Opmerkelijke veranderingen in actuele Beeldhouwkunst,
Kunstbeeld
1996 Poet Kees Rood, A Way of Life
1995 Johan Pas Nature Morte? Kunst, Natuur & Biotoop. St Leefmilieu, Ludion Uitgeverij Antwerpen
1993 Lieven Defour, De Standaard, June
1993 Bert Bauwelinck, Gazet van Antwerpen, June
Grants/Nominations
2021 Stipendium for Established Artists Mondriaan Fund
2021 AIR VierVaart, Groede endorsed by Mondriaan Fund.
2018 Travel Grant CBK (Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam)
2017 Grant Stichting Jaap Hartenfonds, monograph Jan Eric Visser: Veritas
2017 Grant Stichting Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds, Veritas Project Venice.(IT)
2015 Nomination Van Lanschot Kunstprijs 2015
2014 R&D Grant. CBK Rotterdam (Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam)
2012 Nomination Doen Materiaal Award 2012
2010 Project grant from Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam
2009 Nomination Doen Materiaal Award 2009
1994 Environment award for artwork commissioned by city of Sliedrecht
1994 Grant from Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam
Collections
Aegon Art Collection, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Hogeschool Rotterdam, City of Aalst (B), City of Gorinchem, City of Rotterdam, Technical University Eindhoven, St. Yellow Fellow, Verbeke Foundation (B), distinguished private collections (B/NL/UK)
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